Thomas Hood wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:30, Joey Hess wrote: > > busybox ps does not support any of the options you used, as far as I can > > tell. > > > > This is the d-i initrd. We don't have start-stop-daemon. I think that > > running the code and playing with it on the actual d-i system may have > > better results than mere inspection. > > > > (The d-i system doesn't have sleep either, FWIW.) > > I can see that my ignorance of d-i is on display here. :/ So > ignore my suggestions for improvement. I guess the original code > should be tweaked so that the PID of the grep process is excluded, > as Thiemo Seufer suggested.
The following line works in busybox, and matches also the blank in front of the process name to make mismatches less likely. ps |grep ' udhcpc\| dhclient\| pump' |grep -v grep |sed 's/[ ]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

